Imen ELHECHMI FEMTO-ST, Department of Optics UMR CNRS 6174, Franche Comté University 16 Route de Gray 25030 cedex Besançon Imen ELHECHMI Ph.D. student is currently employed as a Marie Curie doctoral fellow (EVAN Training Network). The aim of her work is the development of biometric tools. It is well known that current methods in biometry are not reliable enough. Therefore this work consists in the improvement of current methods of age (juveniles and adults) estimation in extant humans and in the development of a new biometric approach (based on dental growth increments and changes in dental tissues due to cementum and dentine apposition) . Ph.D Supervisors: Prof. Tijani Gharbi and Prof. José Braga.

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